Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
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All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.Henry David Thoreau
It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning round.
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. Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
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Our life is frittered away with detail.... Simplify, simplify.
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Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
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Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes.
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